(Alban Berg - Wozzeck)

Content: The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The doctor torments him with absurd medical experiments; the captain humiliates and ridicules him. And Wozzeck’s lover, Marie (Gun-Brit Barkmin), with whom he has a child, cuckolds him with the drum major. Wozzeck becomes a murderer, stabbing Marie to death. Georg Büchner’s drama fragment, on which Alban Berg based his first opera, is an unflinching case study of social injustice and human suffering. But it is also a grotesque piece that thrives on exaggeration – and in which only a fine line separates the unfathomable from the ridiculous. Accordingly, director Andreas Homoki forgoes all realism.

Countries:

Genres:

Music

Runtime:

101 minutes

Year:

2016

Directors:

Michael Beyer

Production companies:

Accentus Music,

Opernhaus Zürich

Actors:

Wozzeck

Drum Major

Andres

Captain

Doctor

Crews:

Music

Conductor

Stage Director

Writer

Director